 This 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath apartment in Hong Kong's Mid-Levels neighborhood is selling for $3.9 million. WSJ's Andrew LaVallee and Deborah Kan discuss.
 This sleek loft in an old apothecary building in TriBeCa boasts maple floors, nearly 360-degree views of New York City and the Hudson River, and countertops made with the same marble found in the garden at Museum of Modern Art.
 WSJ's Eliot Brown reports unsettled lenders are facing higher costs while investors are shying away from starting new office buildings. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn
 Each week, readers vote on their favorite of the homes featured as the House of the Day. Tour January's winners, from a French chateau style mansion north of Fort Worth, Texas, to a 18th century estate with a swimming pool and beach access on Martha's Vineyard.
 Buying foreclosures to turn them into rental properties is tricky business. Mack Companies, a Chicago real-estate firm, invests in about one out of every 40 homes it inspects. MarketWatch's Amy Hoak looks at why some make the cut and others don't.
 Corrie Driebusch on Lunch Break shows off the four properties vying to be WSJ's House of the Week, including "Mid-Century" Modern Loft in Manhattan, a Caribbean Getaway in St. Lucia, a Kid Friendly Loft In Manhattan and a California Mountain Retreat.
 With home values falling, many owners are counting on a tax break. So why are county assessors making it harder than ever to get one? Alyssa Abkowitz has details on Lunch Break.
 A 9,000-square-foot home beachfront home on Kauai has gone on the market for $24 million. The seller is Bill Jurika, a San Francisco-based private investment banker. Lauren Schuker has details on The News Hub.
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Irvine-based homebuilding company Standard Pacific Homes reported this week its first profitable quarter in more than a year at the end of 2011, spurred by improved sales and higher home prices. Coupled with positive results for January, company President and CEO Scott Stowell told stock analysts in an earning conference call on Tuesday that it's ... Homebuilder reports ‘return to profitability’ is a post from: Lansner on Real Estate
Ladera Ranch is hot. Corona Del Mar is not. That is one conclusion you can draw from the neighborhood slice of the latest O.C. home inventory report from Steve Thomas and his ReportsOnHousing.com. His math shows: February 2 February 2 ... The Orange County town with the fastest-selling homes in terms of Thomas’ “market time” ... Housing: Ladera is hot, CdM is not! is a post from: Lansner on Real Estate
Distressed properties were 34% of Orage County homes listed for sale and 48% of the residences recently put into escrow. Steve Thomas of ReportsOnHousing.compublishes every two weeks a report on the supply of local homes for sale and the share of that inventory that’s distressed properties — foreclosures and short sales. His latest report — ... O.C. foreclosures for sale at 20-month low is a post from: Lansner on Real Estate
Orange County’s housing market speed — by one measure — quickened 21.9% in the past two weeks and sped up 34.7% in a year. The latest Orange County home inventory report from Steve Thomas and ReportsOnHousing.com — data as of February 2 — includes these thoughts ... Typically Super Bowl Sunday marks the beginning of ... Demand for O.C. homes surges 24% in 2 weeks is a post from: Lansner on Real Estate
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